sbisd Less Is More

LEGO Challenges

• Challenge 1 Slide
• Challenge 2 Slide
• LEGO Smart Activities
• LEGO Smart Kits (click Build this Set!)

Problem Solving Strategies

• BalancEdTech Problem-Solving
• Less Is More Discussion Area

FAILure

• F.A.I.L.
• Mindset
• Grit

Teacher Role(s)?

• Google Doc

Questioning

• Essential Questions
• CBL (Challenge Based Learning)
• BalancEdTech Questioning
• Question Types/Starters
• A Questioning Toolkit
• Wonderopolis
• Questioning Game- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Student Self Assessment

• Effort & Achievement Rubric
• Thinkering Studio Rubric
• Rubistar
• BalancEdTech Assessment

Documentation & Reflection

• BalancEdTech Documentation & Reflection

Digital Learning Farm

• Students As Contributors
  • Who Owns The Learning
• Langwitches' Digital Learning Farm Posts

Information Processing

• Big 6
• Problem Solving Graphic
• Critical Consumption - C.R.A.P. Testing
• Google Search Challenges
• Get Real - Information Literacy

Less Is More Continuum?

• The Self-Directed Learning Handbook
• Invent To Learn
• Supporting Self-Directed Learners: Five Forms of Feedback
• BalancEdTech Student Led Blogging
  • Student Shark Blog
  • Today's Question
• BalancEdTech Thinkering Studio
• Engage

T-P-S

• What difference does the metaphor make?
  • Following a guided path.
  • Setting up guard rails. Wide enough to empower but narrow enough to guide.
  • Following a set of blazes.
  • Following footsteps.
• Sometimes the guardrails are unnecessary or limiting. Sometimes they are freeing. How do we know?
  • Get Back In The Box

More...Questions, More...Thinking

1. Take a moment to review each question
2. Select 2-3 to respond to
3. After posting your response, review the posts of your colleagues and reply with a connection, question, strategy, idea, etc.
4. How might you take this conversation back to your campus?

Other Resources

• Be less helpful - Dan Meyer
• Failure Faire
• Making Their Way: Creating a Generation of ‘Thinkerers’
• Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
• enGuage Framework
• Got Grit?
• How To Fail (To The Best of Our Knowledge - Show)
• We Create Video
• Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer? Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12 by Bruce Lesh
• Why Won’t You Just Tell Us the Answer? - Physics teacher gets asked every year
• What Do Kids Really Learn from Failure?
• Failure in Play